See dim in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"antonyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:dim",
"word": "bright"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:dim",
"word": "colored"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:dim",
"word": "multicolored"
}
],
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"word": "dim and distant"
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"word": "dim bulb"
},
{
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"word": "dim-headed"
},
{
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"word": "dim-lit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "dimly"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "dim-sighted"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "dim-witted → dim-wittedness"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "nice-but-dim"
}
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"2": "enm",
"3": "dim"
},
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"2": "ang",
"3": "dim"
},
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"2": "gmw-pro",
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"3": "*dʰem-",
"4": "",
"5": "to whisk, smoke; obscure"
},
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{
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},
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"2": "dimmur",
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},
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English dim, dym, from Old English dim, dimm (“dim, dark, gloomy; wretched, grievous, sad, unhappy”), from Proto-West Germanic *dimm, from Proto-Germanic *dimmaz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰem- (“to whisk, smoke; obscure”). Compare Faroese dimmur (“dark”), Icelandic dimmur (“dark”) and dimma (“darkness”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dimmer",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "dimmest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
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{
"args": {
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}
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"word": "beige"
},
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"word": "drab"
},
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"word": "dun"
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{
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"word": "sallow"
},
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"word": "flat"
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"word": "matt"
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"word": "matte"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
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"word": "achromatic"
},
{
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"word": "dark"
},
{
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"source": "Thesaurus:dim",
"word": "pallid"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The lighting was too dim for me to make out his facial features.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1821, Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, […], Pisa, Italy: […] Didot; reprinted London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, →OCLC:",
"text": "that sustaining Love / Which, through the web of being blindly wove / By man and beast and earth and air and sea, / Burns bright or dim",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Not bright or colorful."
],
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"links": [
[
"bright",
"bright"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dull"
},
{
"word": "dingy"
},
{
"word": "dim"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "tutqun"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mǎten",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "мътен"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "tènue"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hūn",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "昏"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hūn'àn",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "昏暗"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "àndàn",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "暗淡"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "tmavý"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "mdlý"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "donker"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "schemerachtig"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "schemerig"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "mat"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "himmeä"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "tamisé"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "faible"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "dämmerig"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "schummrig"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "skoteinós",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "σκοτεινός"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "achnós",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "αχνός"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "amydrós",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "αμυδρός"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "amaurós",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "ἀμαυρός"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "kehe",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "כהה"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "fénytelen"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "színtelen"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "opálos"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "debole"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fioco"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fioca"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "oscuro"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "oscura"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"alt": "うすぐらい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "usugurai",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "薄暗い"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"alt": "ほのぐらい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "honogurai",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "仄暗い"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "fuscus"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "creper"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "blāvs"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "témen",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "те́мен"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "máten",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "ма́тен"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "rokuroku"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "kaurehu"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "dim"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "dimt"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "dimme"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "dunkel"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "ciemny"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "przyćmiony"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "ciemnawy"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "przytępiony"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "opaco"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "sombrio"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "tern"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "túsklyj",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "ту́склый"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "tenue"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "masaka",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "మసక"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "tʹmjányj",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "тьмя́ний"
},
{
"_dis1": "54 35 2 10",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "not bright, not colourful",
"word": "mờ"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He may be a bit dim, but he's not entirely stupid.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Not smart or intelligent."
],
"id": "en-dim-en-adj-79ZOcfMy",
"links": [
[
"smart",
"smart"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) Not smart or intelligent."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "stupid"
}
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "not smart",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ximple"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "not smart",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "beneit"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "遲鈍"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chídùn",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "迟钝"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "dom"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "bête"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "dämlich"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "koutós",
"sense": "not smart",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κουτός"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "sötét"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "not smart",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tonto"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "not smart",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tonta"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "tap",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "тап"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "tápoglav",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "та́поглав"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "pōrewarewa"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "pōrewharewha"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "pèc"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "bèsti"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "ciemny"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "tępy"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "besta"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "obtuso"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tupój",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "тупо́й"
},
{
"_dis1": "33 65 0 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "not smart",
"word": "tonto"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "His vision grew dimmer as he aged.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Indistinct, hazy or unclear."
],
"id": "en-dim-en-adj-VwazSCVm",
"links": [
[
"Indistinct",
"indistinct"
],
[
"hazy",
"hazy"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "indistinct"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "3 1 96 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nejasen",
"sense": "indistinct",
"word": "неясен"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 96 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zamǎglen",
"sense": "indistinct",
"word": "замъглен"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 96 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "indistinct",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "indistint"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 96 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "indistinct",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "borrós"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 96 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "móhú",
"sense": "indistinct",
"word": "模糊"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 96 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "indistinct",
"word": "vaag"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 96 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "indistinct",
"word": "flou"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 96 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "indistinct",
"word": "indistinct"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 96 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "amydrós",
"sense": "indistinct",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "αμυδρός"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 96 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "dysdiákritos",
"sense": "indistinct",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "δυσδιάκριτος"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 96 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "indistinct",
"word": "homályos"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 96 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "indistinct",
"word": "elmosódott"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 96 1",
"code": "hu",
"english": "due to foggy surroundings",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "indistinct",
"word": "ködbe vesző"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 96 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "indistinct",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"ref": "1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "a king among his courtiers,[…] who out to dim the lustre of all his attendants",
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"ref": "1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book II.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 42, line 501:",
"text": "Now ſet the ſun, and twilight dimm'd the ways, […]",
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"ref": "c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:",
"text": "And with our Sun-bright armour as we march,\nWeel chaſe the Starrs from heauen, and dim their eies\nThat ſtand and muſe at our admyred armes.",
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"ref": "1740, Christopher Pitt, The Aeneid:",
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"text": "Nothing will dim their spirit of resilience.",
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"text": "A glut might dim the outlook for grain futures.",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "to make something less bright",
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"sense": "to make something less bright",
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to make something less bright",
"word": "dimmen"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to make something less bright",
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"sense": "to make something less bright",
"word": "himmentää"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to make something less bright",
"word": "escurecer"
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{
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},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"word": "θαμπώνω"
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{
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"lang": "Greek",
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to make something less bright",
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},
{
"code": "it",
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{
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{
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"code": "it",
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{
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make something less bright",
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"sense": "to make something less bright",
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{
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"sense": "to make something less bright",
"word": "за́темни"
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make something less bright",
"word": "whakakaurehu"
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"sense": "to make something less bright",
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"imperfective"
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{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to make something less bright",
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{
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{
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"sense": "to make something less bright",
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make something less bright",
"word": "ofuscar"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zatemnjatʹ",
"sense": "to make something less bright",
"word": "затемнять"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make something less bright",
"word": "atenuar"
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"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "maṅkalāṉa",
"sense": "to make something less bright",
"word": "மங்கலான"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "to become darker",
"word": "потъмнявам"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to become darker",
"word": "escurecer"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
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"word": "ísligh"
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{
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"word": "affievolirsi"
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{
"code": "pl",
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"tags": [
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to become darker",
"word": "escurecer"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to become darker",
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"sense": "to become darker",
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],
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"sense": "to become darker",
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],
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to become darker",
"word": "nhòa"
}
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:dim",
"word": "sallow"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:dim",
"word": "flat"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:dim",
"word": "matt"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:dim",
"word": "matte"
}
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"word": "achromatic"
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"word": "dark"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:dim",
"word": "pallid"
}
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:dim",
"word": "faint"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:dim",
"word": "lackluster"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:dim",
"word": "leaden"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:dim",
"word": "muddy"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:dim",
"word": "uncolorful"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:dim",
"word": "unholiday"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:dim",
"word": "wan"
}
],
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}
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